Koh Lanta

If you are coming from other islands such as Phuket or Koh Phi Phi, there are ferries and speedboats to bring you to the island.

From Ao Nang or Krabi Town you can take a shuttle van or taxi that will bring you straight onto the island. No need for a boat as there is a quick car ferry that can get you across.

From Krabi Airport, you can take a shuttle van or taxi straight to the island and it will cross over using the car ferry.

Fastest way is to fly into Krabi Airport and take a taxi or shuttle van which takes about 2-3 hours.

Krabi International airport is the closest airport and then the taxi or shuttle will take about 2-3 hours to get to the island.

From Phuket Airport, the drive takes about 4 hours.

The dive sites around the Koh Lanta contain so much diversity. You’ll often see cuttlefish, moray eels, clownfish, trumpetfish and much much more. Macro lovers will love exploring in-between the topography to find seahorses, nudi branch’s, anemone crabs, and other small wonders. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to also see Whale Shark and Manta Rays in the right time of year.

Koh Lanta is a great place to do scuba diving courses because it will train you to become a stronger diver. You will experience wall diving, drift diving, slopping reefs and learning to deal with currents.

Learning to dive in a boring chill spot is all fine and nice until one day you dive with heavy currents and don’t know what to do. Might as well learn how to be strong from day 1.

Koh Haa and Hin Deang, Hin Muang are famous for Whale Sharks and Manta Rays if you’re lucky!

You probably already know the answer: YES. There are programs like the Try Scuba Discover Day for those who just want to try it out and see how it feels or you can do your full Open Water Diver Course and become certified.

Simple answer: they are all the same.

Longer answer: the agencies are just the ones who set the course structure and schedule and limitations but all the agencies have the exact same standards.

So at the end of the day it doesn’t matter which agency the dive center is with because your certificate will work worldwide.

Everyone usually calls it getting your PADI but this really doesn’t mean much and is just because PADI is one of the oldest agencies in the world so they did some really good marketing. Just because it’s older, doesn’t mean it’s better. 😉

We get it, commitment is hard. Normally we will do everything we can to get your booking in with one of our partners but to avoid disappointment it’s always better to get sorted before hand.

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